TransCanada Corp.'s long-troubled Keystone XL oil pipeline project hit another roadblock as a U.S. District Court in Montana ruled it must wait for a further environmental review. "We remain committed to building this important energy infrastructure project".

In August, Morris ruled that the State Department was obligated to "analyze new information relevant to the environmental impacts of its decision" to issue a permit for the pipeline past year.

Yesterday's ruling is temporary, and requires the government to do a more thorough review of how the project might affect the climate, cultural resources and wildlife.

"An agency can not simply disregard contrary or inconvenient factual determinations that it made in the past", Morris wrote Thursday.

It was a major defeat for President Donald Trump, who attacked the Obama administration for failing to move ahead in the face of protests based largely on environmental concerns. "And I guess they'll end up going to the [U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit] as usual".

Construction of the USA leg had been scheduled to begin next year. "We have said our preference would be Canadian pipelines to Canadian tidewater, but at the same time this absolutely represents a number of jobs, we're fairly intertwined with the USA and Houston area, the refineries there".

A federal judge has brought a halt, at least temporarily, to the construction of the $8 billion Keystone XL Pipeline.

The decade-long saga over the Keystone XL pipeline has had more detours than the project's almost 1,200-mile proposed path from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska.

Morris said the government must provide "new and relevant information regarding the risk of spills".

The project has met sustained opposition from environmental advocacy groups, who argue the pipeline would be especially damaging to the climate because it would mean extracting thick, low-quality oil from Canada's oil sands, with tree-cutting and energy consumption in the process.

The State Department could try to address the deficiencies the judge indicated in the ruling, appeal the decision to a higher court, or Congress could try to pass a law enabling the project's construction.

Under President Trump, the State Department wrote "there have been numerous developments related to global action to address climate change, including announcements by many countries of their plans to do so" since the Obama administration's decision two years earlier.

The order stems from a lawsuit filed by the Indigenous Environmental Network and North Coast Rivers Alliance, which alleges that the State Department and TransCanada violated National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, the environmental law described in the order as "the basic national charter for protection of the environment".

Trump claimed there would be "great construction jobs" stemming from Keystone XL, which involves the building of a 1,200 mile pipeline across six U.S. states in order to bring crude oil from Alberta in Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast.

One of those litigants in this case, the Sierra Club, cheered the decision on substantive grounds.

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Americans are voting for all 435 seats in the House and 35 out of 100 seats in the Senate, a as well as state governors. Trump's Republican coalition is increasingly older, whiter, more male and less likely to have a college degree.

Trump saw the move as a betrayal and frequently and publicly criticised Sessions for making the decision to recuse himself . In many instances, that office does not require a Justice Department official to recuse, but suggests a course of action.

The Redwood City, California-based company expects the pill to be available early next year at a price of $50 to $60 per pill. The FDA also released a report on Friday detailing the severity of America's prescription drug abuse and addiction problem.

County elections chief Karen Rhea blamed a poll worker error but said the problem had been corrected, reported the publication. If you are registered to vote and have not moved since the last election, your polling place has most likely not changed.

Trump , coupled with the GOP's ability to retain control of Congress that year, also stunned the Democratic faithful. More than half of Florida voters, 51%, approve of the job Trump is doing as President, compared to 48% who do not.

The Raleigh-Durham area was one of 20 in the USA and Canada in the final running to lure the Amazon site, dubbed HQ2. In Denver, 16 percent said they were somewhat or strongly opposed to having Amazon to set up shop there.

Last year, the country experienced a record number of drug overdoses, an increase driven by synthetic opioid use, the CDC found. An empty bottle of alcohol was found on the nightstand, and a bottle of prescription pills was found in the bathroom.

A hearing was set for 3 p.m.in state court. "After a court ruled she has to turn over ballot tallying info to Gov. Protesters held signs that said, "Brenda Snipes has to go", "stop creating votes" and "don't steal our election".

Barcelona remained top of the group, three points ahead of Inter and six ahead of Tottenham which beat PSV Eindhoven 2-1. With a crunch game against title rivals Atletico Madrid coming up, Valverde may rest his key man.

But they now head into a clash against the All Blacks at Twickenham on November 10 buoyed by two successive wins. England are looking for their first victory against the All Blacks since December 2012.

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